Rob Baxter

[Rob Baxter @Baxter1629]

@ZayvenKnox Claude

[ZAYVEN KNOX @ZayvenKnox]

An Anthropic engineer paid for my espresso at Sightglass when he saw my screen

I was running my Polymarket bot from the counter. He was next in line. Looked over my shoulder. Stopped scrolling.

"That's not a normal trading app. What's it actually running on"

I told him. Claude Code. Four repos. $25 a month.

He sat down without asking.

"I'm on the agent team. We stress test Claude for exactly this. You're letting it find its own edges"

Not just edges. Wallets.

86 million trades. Every wallet. Every entry. Every exit.

"You're feeding Claude raw wallet data and letting it identify who consistently wins. Then cloning them"

He said it slowly. Like he was writing the threat model in his head.

One prompt. Find every wallet with 100 plus trades and win rate above 70%. Rank by profit. Export top 50.

Claude scanned 14,000 wallets in 4 minutes. Returned 47.

The top 20 made more than the bottom 13,000 combined.

"That's not a stat. That's a hit list"

Exactly.

"And you didn't write the scoring function"

Claude did. I just wired it into an if-statement.

Then I showed him the second repo.

Official Rust CLI. No API key for reads. 500 markets, Claude scores them in minutes.

Gap. Depth. Resolution window.

487 markets become 35 before a dollar moves.

93% killed before I even see them.

A green fill landed on the screen. +$84.

He watched it hit.

"How does it decide to actually enter"

Three agents. Shared wallet. No shared memory. Arbitrage, convergence, whale copy. 2 agree, full size. 1 alone, half. Disagree, no trade.

Consensus filter alone killed 40% of losing trades.

"And the exits?"

The 47 whales never hold to settlement. 91% exit early. 73% of max profit captured. Redeploy immediately.

My bot cuts at 85% of expected move or on a 3x volume spike.

"You built a whale copy bot that exits before the whales"

Yeah.

He put his espresso down.

"How often does it trade"

10 a day on average. Most of them skipped before I look up from my coffee.

My setup:
Claude API - $20/mo
VPS in Germany - $5/mo
poly_data - free
polymarket-cli - free
Polymarket/agents - free

$200 seed. 27 days ago. $14,300 now.

Copytrade here: https://t.co/zDXGamMWw0…

271 trades. 74% win rate. Sharpe 2.47.

I haven't touched it in 27 days.

He stared at the screen for a long time.

"This is literally what our red team simulates. Except you actually shipped it"

He emailed me the next morning.

"Any chance you'd take a call with our policy lead"

I told him the article is the call. Read it twice.

Too late to gatekeep.

You only need Claude + laptop + 1 hour/day.

Giving This Free for 24 hours. To get it:

1. Comment the word 'Claude'
2. Like and Retweet this post
3. Follow me
@ZayvenKnox

[Law in Japan @Colin_P_A_Jones]

@RGA This is Major Tom to tech support
I’m clicking on the tab
But it’s acting in a most peculiar way
And the menu ribbon looks quite different today

[black pepper cracker @__angoose]

Pioneering the “Irish Hello” where I turn up unannounced to a friend’s location

[John Kennedy @FrazzleMyGimp]

[Home Depot staff meeting]

BOSS: Someone has been breaking all the wood. Any idea who it is?

ME: [tightening my green karate belt] Probably someone pretty strong.

[Conspiratorial Templates @mynamehear]

Every headline now is something like:

China powers office building with spoonful of baker's yeast; America's new AI surgeon general says hot dogs count as vegetables

[ཊལབསརངཧ @David_Rudnick]

hi. i am billionaire. for my entire adult life, i have rewired my brain to only seek to extract money. i am building a machine to destroy you and everything you love and turn it into money that i own.

(American) : This is so cool. this is the coolest thing i have ever heard

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

INTERVIEWER (reading resume): Uh, under "Skills" here you have "Knew who Mrs. Doubtfire was right away."

ME: It was Robin Williams. It was their dad.

INTERVIEWER (whispering to colleague): This is our guy.

[Jamarcus “Toe Jam” Lippey @mizzoulippey]

Misogynist? Is there a Mr. Ogynist I can talk to?

[jon drake @DrakeGatsby]

Super Bowl commercials can be boiled down to either:
- Remember this thing? Ha ha us too
- You can gamble on gender reveals now

[MeinPillowGuy 🇵🇸 🧀 @SplurtCobain]

@TristarJDR @AndyHermanNFL

[DaddyJew @DaddyJew]

please doctor, it’s his foot. it’s really loose

[Dylan @notnotdylm]

bro you look like you sold monorails to brockway, ogdenville, and north havenbrook

[ThatNerdierGirl @itsmeleeleed]

Missionary,
so I can see the look on your face when I tell you that you suck at Goldeneye

[rudy betrayed @rudy_betrayed]

We’ve broken containment

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

Trying to enjoy my last day of vacation at the pool and a guy walks by me and says, sorry you dropped this? I just assumed it was something my kids were playing with. He walks away, I open it up. Day ruined. #Mean

[Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred]

Commenting “AI slop” under pictures of my friends’ kids opening presents

[TKs-Mantis @TKsMantis]

You are not gonna believe this

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

Would it kill the makers of avocados to put a different toy inside?

I have like 50 wooden balls already.

[Kevin Van Valkenburg @KVanValkenburg]

We need to get men off their phones and get them back to searching for peppermint and wrestling bumbles over the edge of cliffs.